TITLE: Moved into Motion TEXT: Exodus 2:11-25 THEME: The believer is moved to action when he sees the world as God does.

“That’s all that I can stands, and I can’t stands no more”

There is a point of justifiable intolerance that stirs us into action and moves us to try to correct the evil that we are witnessing before our eyes. This point in time, this moment of urgency is described by Bill Hybel’s as “Holy Discontentment.”

Exodus 2: One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2: The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"

Exodus 2: The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known."

Exodus 2: When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.

Exodus 2: Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. 18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"

Exodus 2: They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock." 20 "And where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat."

Exodus 2: Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, "I have become an alien in a foreign land."

Exodus 2: During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them

What drives a person to engage in a cause that urgency needs changing?

I.They identify with the people in need. “One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor.” (v. 11).

Lloyd Billingsly, “Fanaticism: Religions Rebel Son” He writes about people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and the Khmer Rouge.

Lloyd Billingsly, “Fanaticism: Religions Rebel Son” He writes about people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and the Khmer Rouge. He asks the question, “How could these people justify the mass murder of millions of their own people?”

Lloyd Billingsly, “Fanaticism: Religions Rebel Son” “The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party, History, the Proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.”

Three Outlooks on Evil Dehumanizing People leads to killing and oppression

Three Outlooks on Evil Dehumanizing People leads to killing and oppression Detachment from People leads to indifference and inaction,

Three Outlooks on Evil Dehumanizing People leads to killing and oppression Detachment from People leads to indifference and inaction, Identifying with People leads to compassion and concern.

Atheist Christian Hitchens A supporter of Leon Trotsky who was the intellectual force behind the atheistic Bolshevik Revolution and the leader of the Red Army that took over Russia in His atheist agenda became the catalyst for killing of millions of the attempt to eradicate any vestiges of religion from the Soviet Union.

Atheist Christian Hitchens His book cites as one of the reasons for the evil of Christianity is that it is responsible for killing many people through the crusades, the Inquisition, the Witch Trials, etc. While we cannot support these actions that killed around 2,000 to 3,000 people they pale in comparison the 10 of millions killed by atheists regimes under Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

What drives a person to engage in a cause that urgency needs changing?

II.They see the plight of the people in need. “He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.”

Exodus 2: “ 23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them

Exodus 3 1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Exodus 3 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up."

Exodus 3 4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am." 5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."

Exodus 3 6 Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. 7 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.

Exodus 3 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Exodus 3 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."

What drives a person to engage in a cause that urgency needs changing?

III.They sense the urgency of helping the people in need. Would you be one who walked by?

III.They sense the urgency of helping the people in need. “How many people in our churches have never felt the urgency to share Christ with someone is hopelessly lost without Christ and certain of eternal destruction because of fear of embarrassment or indifference.”

III.They sense the urgency of helping the people in need. “How many people in our churches have never felt the urgency to share Christ with someone is hopelessly lost without Christ and certain of eternal destruction because of fear of embarrassment or indifference.”

What drives a person to engage in a cause that urgently needs changing?

IV.They act on behalf of those in need.

Exodus 2: “15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.”

Exodus 2: Popeye moments demand a response- they demand that we do something. Our sense of urgency and sense of injustice cannot be satisfied until we act

APPLY TO SPECIFIC AUDIENCE We must guard against dehumanizing people.

APPLY TO SPECIFIC AUDIENCE We must guard against dehumanizing people. If we see things as God sees them we can’t help but have a Popeye moment. A time where we say, “That’s all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more.

APPLY TO SPECIFIC AUDIENCE We must guard against dehumanizing people. If we see things as God sees them we can’t help but have a Popeye moment. A time where we say, “That’s all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more. We must open our eyes to what is going on around.

“That’s all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more.”